1. conviction, strong belief, article of faith -- (an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence)
2. conviction, judgment of conviction, condemnation, sentence -- ((criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise")

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"and upon this conviction I proceeded. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

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But to my own conviction first and las. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton

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The conviction seemed real he looked as if he felt it. - from Emma by Jane Austen

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"The conviction that the crime is a very peculiar one. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I did not give utterance to this conviction it was enough to feel it. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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You must assert that in such words as will carry conviction with them. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Elton, the caution he had given, the conviction he had professed that Mr. - from Emma by Jane Austen

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"And your assurance of it, I suppose, carried immediate conviction to him.. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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That strengthens the conviction that the person in question was her husband. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

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"You've never had, and never have, convictions all you want is to please your vanity.. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Then follow informations and convictions for treason. - from The Republic by Plato

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He vaguely felt, too, that what he called his new convictions were not merely lack of knowledge, but that they were part of a whole order of ideas, in which no knowledge of what he needed was possible. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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"Yes, she is right," thought the old princess, all her convictions dissipated by the appearance of His Highness. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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The members of this party, chiefly civilians and to whom Arakcheev belonged, thought and said what men who have no convictions but wish to seem to have some generally say. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone thinking, feeling, and seeing things each from his own point of view. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least modified by that curious incident, which would be explained thereafter, and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo